Here are answers to some questions you might have about the discovery that was announced on Monday.

Intel has formally unveiled its Nervana Neural Network Processor family of chips designed for machine learning use cases. The technology underlying the chips is heavily tied to Nervana Systems, a…

The Oscar-winning actor and environmentalist says he's an investor in Beyond Meat, a plant-based food startup aiming to disrupt the $48 trillion meat industry.

Who needs humans?

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If you could decide today... how long do you want to live?

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just got one step closer to spaceflight.

To replicate ourselves in AI, we first have to embrace human error—and as sci-fi writer Hugh Howey argues, we probably shouldn't.

Ingestible devices could diagnose gastrointestinal slowdown or monitor food intake.

As neuroscience brings greater understanding of the human brain, experts are applying those findings in the classroom to improve how we teach and learn.

We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what they will do to jobs. I recently saw a story in ­MarketWatch that said robots will take half of today’s…

Earlier this year, 116 technology luminaries signed an open letter imploring the United Nations to ban “lethal autonomous weapons systems,” warning that they would “permit armed conflict to…

The global movement for open access to publicly-funded research stems from the sensible proposition that if the government has used taxpayers' money to fund research, the publication of the results

Researchers are keeping little bits of brain tissue on life support long enough to dye, sequence, zap, and map out individual neurons in 3-D.

It could one day be used to treat a range of inherited diseases.

Here’s the thing about quantum mechanics: it works on Earth, but how do we know that it works elsewhere—like in space? That requires testing it over and over again, building wild experiments that send particles all over the planet. After some new results…

There’s something eerily dystopian about the lives of cells. Like the young heroes in popular teen novels, cells are born into stringent organ “societies,” destined to perform specific roles preordained...

You live and then you die and then you rot in a hole—or so say the elites, with their glasses, and their PhDs in neuroscience. This bummer reality has never appealed much to Americans, 72 percent of whom believe in some kind of afterlife. It’s a comparatively…

After a disappointing clinical trial in 2015, scientists are trying anew to mend failing hearts with a gene.

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